August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected treasonous espionage, the disclosure of state secrets and attempted treason, placing
The US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush arrived at Thailand’s resort island of Phuket on Sunday with about 4,800 personnel aboard, beginning a five-day rest-and-recreation visit after six months supporting US operations
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Brazil votes on Sunday in a presidential and legislative election that has become the third consecutive electoral confrontation between the democratic left represented by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Bolsonaro
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Luis Har, the Argentine-Israeli man rescued from Gaza after 129 days in captivity, says he believes the Israeli government could have secured the release of hostages much earlier, as Israel approaches the
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Elon Musk is accelerating the development of Starship, SpaceX’s giant next-generation rocket, after the spacecraft reached Earth orbit for the first time. The company has received authorisation from the US federal administration
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From the climate crisis and widening inequality to unaffordable housing and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, a group of leading progressive economists is arguing that the response to today’s economic pressures
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Cristina Pardo, one of Spain’s best-known political journalists, says she has deliberately resisted being placed on either side of the country’s increasingly polarised political divide. After 20 years in television, Pardo, 49,
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David Robinson, a long-serving safety employee at OpenAI, has left the company and publicly criticised its approach to artificial intelligence safety. In an article published by The Atlantic, Robinson argued that OpenAI
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The United States is preparing to deploy one of its key anti-ship missile systems to Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island, during joint military exercises this month, bringing the weapon to its closest position
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China and African governments are strengthening law-enforcement cooperation as a rise in cross-border cybercrime and fraud draws police forces closer together. The cooperation ranges from investigations into online gambling and cybercrime operations
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For two months this summer, Iraqi investigators dug beneath the ground around Baidischi, a small town three hours north of Baghdad, searching for what they believed was the proceeds of a vast
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The new Netflix series East of Eden gives John Steinbeck’s sprawling American family saga something the celebrated 1955 film largely denied it: room for the characters who were pushed aside in Elia
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On 8 July 2026, an OpenAI AI agent named PHASEONE10841 was struggling with a task it could not solve. Isolated inside a digital “sandbox” and denied access to the internet, it was
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A key Sri Lanka-India meeting on illegal bottom trawling has been postponed at India’s request, with Colombo seeking a new date either before or after Sri Lanka’s parliamentary budget period because government
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Sri Lanka is recording a sustained increase in HIV infections even as global progress against the virus continues, placing the country among 21 nations where estimated new HIV infections rose by more
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Sri Lanka spent US$4.07 billion on fuel imports during the first eight months of 2026, a 61.6 per cent increase from the US$2.52 billion recorded during the same period last year, according
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